2 hours ago | NY Times

The recess gave senators a chance to eat, use the restroom and do what they do best - run to the cameras and talk to reporters
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Buttigieg gets air support in New Hampshire

4 hours ago | Politico

A nonprofit group backing Pete Buttigieg is launching a TV ad campaign supporting him in New Hampshire, roughly two weeks before voters there cast ballots in the...
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Buttigieg seeks validation from gathering of mayoral peers

4 hours ago | My Sanantonio

WASHINGTON - For Pete Buttigieg, an appearance before a gathering of the nation's mayors Thursday was a home game. The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, was cheered by his...
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Ousted From Washington, Ex-Spy Valerie Plame Asks Voters to Send Her Back

4 hours ago | NY Times

Ms. Plame is celebrating her C.I.A. past in a race for a congressional seat. But as she finds herself cast as an outsider, she's running into trouble.
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Mick Mulvaney becomes top Democratic impeachment target

8 hours ago | Politico

Democrats are zeroing in on Mick Mulvaney as their top demand for witness testimony during President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. That doesn't mean the party doesn't also...
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Adam Schiff and the End of Implausible Deniability

8 hours ago | The New Republic

From time to time in the Trump era, Republican members of Congress have found themselves stricken with blindness, deafness, illiteracy, or some combination thereof. Their...
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What we know, and don't, about the alleged Bezos phone hack

12 hours ago | My Sanantonio | 2 articles

BOSTON - U.N. human rights experts are asking Washington to investigate a suspected Saudi hack that may have siphoned data from the personal smartphone of Jeff Bezos, Amazon...
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The Finance 202: U.S. bankers at World Economic Forum in Davos see bull market extending its run

14 hours ago | The Washington Post

But growing inequality signals those gains won't be widely shared.
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Sanders, Gagged in Senate, Suffers Rivals' Slings

14 hours ago | Real Clear Politics

The veteran senator is running for president, but he can't talk about it. If he does - if Bernie Sanders so much as whispers to a colleague on the Senate floor - he can be...
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Aaron Hernandez legacy, like estate, lacks worth

20 hours ago | Boston Herald

If there was a singular takeaway from Netflix's docuseries “Killer Inside: The Mind of Aaron Hernandez” it would be this: Old sins cast long shadows. Though the streaming...
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Jim Lehrer, Longtime PBS Anchor, Dies At 85

Lehrer chronicled such pivotal events as John F. Kennedy's assassination and the 1973 Senate Watergate Hearings. For years, he and lifelong friend Robert MacNeil co-anchored... Read more ...

New York City To Require Businesses To Accept Cash Payments

The city council is expected to pass a bill aiming to protect New Yorkers who don't have bank accounts. Read more ...

Democrats hammer constitutional case for Trump's removal

House Democrats are launching phase two of their impeachment case on Thursday: the constitutional argument for why President Donald Trump should be removed from office. The... Read more ...

Jerry Nadler 'stunned' Susan Collins into writing a note to John Roberts

Sen. Susan Collins was “stunned” by Rep. Jerry Nadler's late-night diatribe this week against what he deemed a “cover-up” by Senate Republicans for President Donald Trump - so... Read more ...

Barack And Michelle Obama's Portraits Are Going On Tour

The National Portrait Gallery will bring the iconic portraits of the former president and first lady to five cities in 2021 and 2022. Read more ...

Read Live Updates From Day 2 Of Democrats' Opening Arguments In Impeachment...

The impeachment managers continued to make their case to the Senate for removing President Donald Trump from office. Read more ...

Impeachment Managers Shift Focus to Abuse of Power

When President Trump's Senate trial resumes Thursday, House impeachment managers plan to focus on the abuse-of-power allegation against the president, reports the Washington... Read more ...

Senate impeachment trial: Live highlights and updates

House Democrats will use their second day of opening arguments in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial to put forth the constitutional framework for why the president... Read more ...

Trump to make it harder for pregnant foreigners to visit U.S

The State Department released a rule Thursday that will make it harder for pregnant foreigners to travel to the U.S. in what the Trump administration says is an effort to crack... Read more ...

Marianne Williamson throws her support behind Yang in Iowa

Spiritual guru and former presidential candidate Marianne Williamson said she would throw her backing behind Andrew Yang in the Iowa caucuses in a week and a half, though she... Read more ...

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